Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Performance Per Dollar
Tests for a future article on Phoronix by Michael Larabel.
Core i9 10900K
Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.30GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER (F3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Comet Lake PCH, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Device 15f3 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0xc8
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ryzen 9 3900X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ryzen 9 3950X
Changed Processor to AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads).
IOR
ET: Legacy
Tesseract
Unigine Heaven
Unigine Superposition
Unigine Valley
Xonotic
ParaView
Sockperf
C-Blosc
IPC_benchmark
Crypto++
High Performance Conjugate Gradient
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
LeelaChessZero
Parboil
CP2K Molecular Dynamics
Rodinia
NAMD
Nebular Empirical Analysis Tool
Polyhedron Fortran Benchmarks
toyBrot Fractal Generator
lzbench
Algebraic Multi-Grid Benchmark
FFTW
Pennant
Timed MrBayes Analysis
NWChem
Timed HMMer Search
LULESH
BLAKE2
libgav1
Go Benchmarks
Java SciMark
Bork File Encrypter
Java Gradle Build
DaCapo Benchmark
Renaissance
Fhourstones
CacheBench
Nettle
Botan
TSCP
John The Ripper
GraphicsMagick
oneDNN MKL-DNN
dav1d
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
AOM AV1
Embree
VP9 libvpx Encoding
x264
x265
ACES DGEMM
Intel Open Image Denoise
OpenVKL
Coremark
LuxCoreRender
Himeno Benchmark
7-Zip Compression
Stockfish
asmFish
Swet
ebizzy
Timed Apache Compilation
Timed FFmpeg Compilation
Timed GCC Compilation
Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
Timed LLVM Compilation
Timed MPlayer Compilation
Timed PHP Compilation
Build2
C-Ray
Parallel BZIP2 Compression
Primesieve
Smallpt
Tungsten Renderer
YafaRay
rays1bench
Numpy Benchmark
AOBench
Bullet Physics Engine
Gzip Compression
XZ Compression
Zstd Compression
Cython benchmark
DeepSpeech
FLAC Audio Encoding
LAME MP3 Encoding
FFmpeg
GnuPG
Hackbench
m-queens
Minion
N-Queens
Perl Benchmarks
Radiance Benchmark
Tachyon
OpenSSL
Aircrack-ng
Cpuminer-Opt
Core-Latency
Multichase Pointer Chaser
ASKAP
libjpeg-turbo tjbench
GROMACS
G'MIC
Basis Universal
SQLite Speedtest
GEGL
GIMP
LibreOffice
RawTherapee
Redis
Stress-NG
PlaidML
ctx_clock
Sysbench
Basemark GPU
Optcarrot
IndigoBench
Facebook RocksDB
Blender
Xsbench
PyBench
PyPerformance
Numenta Anomaly Benchmark
Hierarchical INTegration
NeatBench
Appleseed
Selenium
Git
Mlpack Benchmark
Scikit-Learn
BRL-CAD
OSBench
Zstd Compression
dav1d
Core i9 10900K
Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.30GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER (F3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Comet Lake PCH, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Device 15f3 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0xc8
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 20 May 2020 11:01 by user pts.
Ryzen 9 3900X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 26 May 2020 14:01 by user pts.
Ryzen 9 3950X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 22 May 2020 12:41 by user pts.